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The Navy On Saturday he announced that another destroyer was sent to the southern border to help in the maritime efforts ongoing to curb illegal immigration and drug smuggling.
Marina’s officials said the USS Spruance, a Burke Burke class guided missile destroyer, left the naval base San Diego Saturday to support southern border operations.
The objective of the mission is to restore territorial integrity on the southern border of the United States, according to a Marine statement.
The USS Sprunce is deployed in an area of responsibility of the Northern US Command. (US Navy)
Spruance will improve maritime efforts, support inter -institutional collaboration and contribute to a coordinated and robust response to combat maritime terrorismProliferation of weapons, transnational crimes, piracy, environmental destruction and illegal maritime immigration, according to the statement.
“The deployment of the USS Sprunce as part of the southern border mission of the Northern US Command. It provides additional capacity and expands the geography of unique military capacities that work with the Department of National Security,” said General Gregory Guillot, Usnorthcom commander.
He added that with Sprunce out of the west coast and the USS Serly, a recently deployed destroyer in the Gulf of America, the maritime presence of the Navy “contributes to the coordinated DOD response of all dominance to the presidential executive order and demonstrates our resolution to achieve the operational control of the border.”
A group of more than 100 illegal migrants try to enter the United States at the southern border by hurrying a border fence on March 21, 2024. (James Breeden for New York Post/Mega)
Coast Guard officials told Fox News Digital earlier this month that hundreds of hundreds of Migrant boat encounters They were registered near the coast of San Diego in the last 90 days, which caused the allocation of additional resources.
Sprunce will bring maritime capabilities to the north command of the United States (Usnorthcom) in response to the executive orders signed by the president Donald TrumpA national emergency statement and a clarification of the role of the military in the protection of territorial integrity of the United States
The combatant command “continues to fill the critical capacities gaps in support of DHS and CBP,” according to the statement.
The Missile Destroyer Class Guided Arleight Burke Uss (DDG 107) returns to Norfolk Naval Station in Virginia. (Specialist in the US Navy.
The destroyer will be accompanied by a detachment for the application of the United States Coast Guard Law (Ledet) created in 1982.
The Ledets of the Coast Guard carry out a variety of maritime interdiction missions, which include counteratuses, military combat operations, alien migration interdiction, protection of the military force, antitrherer, national security and humanitarian response.
Sprunce returned to the San Diego Naval Base on December 19, 2024, after a five -month deployment in the operating areas of the 5th and 7th Fleet of the United States fleet as part of the Abraham Lincoln Operators attack group (ABECSG).
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The strike group was ordered to the area of responsibility of the US Central Command. Uu. To reinforce the position of the US military force in the Middle East, dissuade regional escalation, degrade Houthi’s capabilities, defend US forces and navigate together with allies and partners to promote security, stability and prosperity, marine officials said.
“ABECSG’s assigned destroyers, to include spruance, were essential to provide a defense layer to US forces and guarantee the safe passage of commercial vessels and associated nations that travel on international river roads such as the Red Sea, the Bab el-Mandeb Strait and Aden’s Gulf,” according to the statement.
